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The Blocking in Facebook let you add some privacy to enhance your Facebook daily use. You can completly block people but or just block certain areas like events, invites from apps and also specific apps etc.

If you want to block something or somebody, go to the facebook login and enter your credentials. Then click on the “cogwheel” icon to the right in the top meny. In the pop up menu, select “privacy settings”.

In the left column on the Facebook page a new menu appears.
Under “Privacy” you now find “Blocking”. Click on it.

Now you can choose who or what to block:

Restricted list
Adding people to the restricted list on Facebook means that they want see any of your posts or other updates that you make.

Unless you have choose to make a post public.
Public posts are always accessible to everyone.Block Users
Add the name or email to the friend you want to block.
If you block a person on Facebook they no longer can comunicate with you through Facebook. You don’t get any messages or new etc.

However, if you and the person you block are members of the same group or have the same apps you can still interact with eachother when entering the group or using the app.Block app invites
Perfect if you have friends that constantly leave you messages where they want you to join a game or use the same app as they use.
Blocking them and you no longer will recieve any app invitations.

Block event invites
Do you have friends on Facebook that always invites you to events that you never will take part of? Just block them and you will get rid of their requests.

Block apps
If you are annoyed by invitations or news or any other information from an app on Facebook? Just block it by typing there name.

In my latest post I pointed out why you should add another email address to your facebook acount.
But how is it done? It’s easy!

Start to login to facebook. In the top menu on the far right you find an icon that looks like a little cogwheel. Click on it and select account settings from the menu that drops down. Next select “edit” to the right of your Email. Then select “Add another email address” and type the email in the “New email” field. Then click “Save changes”. Done! Now you have an extra email adress connectet to you facebook account in case you loose your ordinary email.

My first advice for those of you that uses Facebook is to always make sure to provide an alternate email address to your Facebook account!

You probably don’t think that you should run into problems with your email. But it is really importat that you have a working e-mail account.
Othervise it may end up that you no longer can use the Facebook login.

If you lose your email, Facebook can not verify that you are you.
The problem is much bigger than that you just miss updates from Facebook.
Suppose you happen to forget your password when you log in to Facebook? Without e-mail it makes it impossible for you to get a new password, and chances are that you never again can access your Facebook account.

There are several ways for you to loose control of your email:

Suppose you go to school and have an email address from there. When you leave school you lose the account.

Suppose you use the email address you have at your work. If you change employee or get fired, you will lose your e-mail address.

Some real estate companies offer e-mail as part of your internet connection. Suppose you move? What happens then?

You may have e-mail through your ISP. You change operator and suddenly you stand without your email.

There are unscrupulous people out there on the internet who send spam. They may simulate other senders to add credibility to their spam. If they use your email it may end up in so-called spam filters, and that makes e-mail adress unusable.

Someone may even come across your information and thus hijack your account.

Your e-mail supplier may simply go bankrupt.

As you see, there are many ways to lose your e-mail address.

If you want to make sure that you will be able to log in to Facebook then you should make sure you add an alternate email address to use as a backup.

If you don not have have an additional e-mail address, you can obtain one for free from Microsoft or Google or any other free service out there.